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2020-06-18, 03:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Life on a world made up of islands
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2020-06-18, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2012
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- Tharggy, on Tellene
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Re: Life on a world made up of islands
Well... there are intelligent Crabs, and dolphin people, shark people and Squid people.
Those are the locals. The rest of the humanoids came in from portals on ships (not intentionally) so the Dwarves, Elves, Humans etc. are technically an invasive species. I was just curious what would naturally show up on this planet as a basis to work from and then toss in others from the portals.
So there can totally be proper terrestrial organisms, they probably just came from another world.
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2020-06-18, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
Re: Life on a world made up of islands
Yeah. The Songs of Distant Earth is quite good. I've read it twice, the first time when I was a teenager.
If anyone in this thread wants an interesting but.... different approach to a story on a water world, you might want to research, if not read, The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg. The book was... not as enjoyable to read as I'd hoped. But the worldbuilding was quite good from my perspective when I read it in hte early 2000s.
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2020-06-18, 08:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Life on a world made up of islands
Originally Posted by Mark Hall
Don't forget your local library. They may have it, or as an e-book.
Originally Posted by gomipile
If anyone in this thread wants an interesting but.... different approach to a story on a water world, you might want to research, if not read, The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg. The book was... not as enjoyable to read as I'd hoped. But the worldbuilding was quite good from my perspective when I read it in hte early 2000s.
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2020-06-18, 10:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Life on a world made up of islands
I've only read it once about twenty years ago, so take what I say with a helping of salt.
I recall the character arcs not paying off in favor of a "philosophical" ending on the state of humanity that seemed like the author's navel-gazing. I remember it taking a novel's worth of character development and throwing it all away in the last few pages to surprise the reader with an ending that took all agency away from the characters.
But, I haven't reread it recently, so I could be very wrong about that.